I am installing VL Light. Nightflier's input has helped. However, I have just burned my second CD and have a problem with veclinux.tlz. The check media reports the it is corrupted on both CD's I have created.

I suspect that the combination of large, highly compressed bulk packages and older machines cause this issue. The decompression maxes out the system for a long time and errors occur.

I made an ISO using less compression. Find it here:http://cincinnatix.com/vectorlinux/nightflier/VL5.9.1-Light.isomd5sum: 8214c61fcc7ca23e69b47c2c6d17cad3

The download is just over 500 MB. I tried it on a Celeron 500 with 64 MB of RAM (minus some for shared graphics). There was a dramatic increase in install speed over the original version. If anyone tries it, please post your results here.

Are there any other differences from 5.9? The original 5.9 (and your wonderful 6.0 alpha) both worked well for me. If the compression rate is the only change then it won't be much of a test if I download it.

@ Caitlyn:5.9.1 is not an official release, I just wanted to differentiate it from the original. It is a quick experiment to see if using less compression helps out in cases like this. The contents of the ISO is identical to the original, so no need to test unless you want to try it on a really low spec machine.

@ karkrash:Even if the 5.9 Final disc works on a faster computer, it may not install on an old one. If installing from the CD fails, there is the option of installing from the hard drive, but it's a little more involved. Try the unofficial 5.9.1 first.

Thanks to all for the responses. I am now running on the 150 MHz IBM Thinkpad.

Specs:150Mhz Pentium48 MB mem2 GB HD800x600 display

Learned lessons:The new iso supplied by "nightflier" worked as well as his guidance on installing from non-bootable CDROM.- I used a bootable DOS floppy with CD drivers- I then used loadlin steps provided by nightflierI needed to limit the packages I was installing (1.5GB...I have 622 MB left).I needed Wget to complete the download successfully. (as suggested by caitlyn and toothandnail)The MD5sum was wrong on my first download (as suggested by wcs).

My next challenge is to get the PCMCIA 3Com ethernet board (model 3CCFE574BT) working.